GeForce 7800 GT and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 7800 GT vs GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 7800 GT
251
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce 7800 GT
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G70
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2005
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
400 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
302 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
32
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.000
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A